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and I said I would

if I could keep my clothes on.

Because I really think it's important

to keep one's mystique,

don't you, Mr Campion?

Is it Mr Campion

or Father Anthony?

It's, uh, it's Tony.

Do you think it's a sin...Tony?

I don't think there's anything sinful

about the body.

There's a tradition of religious

painting featuring the nude.

It's a question of...how the artist

uses the body that's important.

So, do you think

Mr Lindsay's paintings are rude?

Some I think are profane.

Oh, that's good. I'm starving.

I only eat once a day

cos my mother's very fat

and it runs in my family.

You should see my grandpa.

He looks like the Michelin Man.

You know, the one

with all those tyres around him?

He eats like a horse!

He puts tomato sauce on everything.

It was a very enlightened society.

The artists made all the decisions.

That's why there's no record

of warfare

between the Atlanteans

and anyone else.

The main question is, where was it?

The Mediterranean

is the most likely spot.

They're always digging up pottery

that doesn't belong to

any known civilization.

How could a complete people

just disappear?

Well, a cataclysm. They were all

wiped out in a cataclysm.

Whole island sank in an earthquake.

So you're a genuine believer

in Atlantis?

Well, I lived there

in a former incarnation.

I ask because the cataclysm can be

seen as an image of moral collapse

and some think we're going through

a similar period of decay.

Do you explore that in your painting?

I think people have always

been decaying, whenever they can.

He's just a very depraved man,

I'm afraid, Mr Campion.

No one's safe.

I'm bloody bored!

Have you seen those fairies lately?

A couple of them were out

last Friday.

- They were not!

- They were too.

They always come out

on Fridays round midnight.

They do not. Do they, Mummy?

Yes, you don't see them

cos you're asleep.

Tonight's Friday,

as a matter of fact.

But then you'd be

too bloody bored to see them.

No, I'm not, Mummy.

I promise I won't be bored.

- Even bloody bored?

- Promise!

Well, if you're gonna be up

at midnight, get to bed now.

- Say good night to everybody.

- Good night, everybody.

- Do they really come, Mummy?

- Fairies only live in books.

The Industrial Revolution

killed the fairies.

They were left with nowhere to live.

- Except our imaginations.

- lmaginations are a luxury.

- Beg your pardon?

- Most people can't afford them.

I don't think imagination

is dependent on economics, is it?

In a factory you're doing exactly

the same thing day after day.

An active imagination is what allows

people to do that kind of work.

Oh, well, you'd know, of course!

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